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- the present invention relates to motion estimation of a mobile body, and more particularly, to a motion estimation method and system for a mobile body using compass data.
- Pose estimation of a mobile body is achieved by estimating a position and an orientation of the mobile body using an absolute sensor or a relative sensor.
- Pose estimation of a mobile body moving on a 2-dimensional plane as shown in FIG. 1 is achieved by estimating the position (x, y) and the direction ⁇ of the mobile body.
- the said absolute sensor can measure the absolute position or orientation of the mobile body instead of its relative motion.
- a camera, a laser scanner, sonar sensors, a global positioning systems (GPS), or a magnetic compass can be used as an absolute sensor.
- the said relative sensor can measure a position or an orientation by measuring and integrating a relative increments or decrements value of the motion of the mobile body.
- a gyro, an accelerometer, and an odometer an encoder attached to a motor
- the camera is sensitive to a lighting status of surrounding environments and has a high possibility of outputting unreliable data
- the laser scanner can output reliable data but is very expensive, and if a number of obstacles exist, it is difficult to measure a position or an orientation using the laser scanner
- the sonar has low data accuracy
- the GPS can be used only outside and has low precision
- the compass has a high possibility of being affected by a disturbance of magnetic field existing indoors.
- the relative sensors measure only a variable value, an integration error is inevitably generated by integrating the variable value, and a drift error characteristics of the gyro and the accelerometer cannot be avoided.
- the disadvantages described above are reduced by sensor fusion using a compass as an absolute sensor and a gyro and an odometer as relative sensors.
- a conventional dead-reckoning pose estimation method is classified into a method using only an odometer, a method using a gyro and an odometer, and a method using a compass and an odometer.
- the method using only the odometer is the simplest one.
- the method using only the odometer cannot cope with a slippage error, a bump collision, or kidnapping. Also, since errors are continuously accumulated in this method, an unbounded error exists.
- the present invention provides a motion estimation method and system for a mobile body, which use sensor fusion to calculate pose information of the mobile body by accurately and robustly estimating an orientation of the mobile body.
- the present invention also provides a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a computer readable program for performing the motion estimation method for a mobile body.
- a motion estimation method for a mobile body comprising: obtaining magnetic field information from the magnetic compasses attached to the mobile body; comparing the magnetic field of the mobile body with a predetermined value and determining whether a position of the mobile body belongs to a specific region according to the comparison result; and estimating a moving direction of the mobile body by determining whether a compass azimuth angle is used for estimating the orientation of the mobile body according to the determination result.
- the predetermined value can be the magnitude of the geomagnetic field
- the specific region can be a region in which the Earth's magnetic field works dominantly.
- the determination of whether a position of the mobile body belongs to a specific region can comprise: if two compasses are installed in the mobile body, comparing each of the magnitude of a magnetic field of the first compass and the magnitude of a magnetic field of the second compass with the magnitude of the geomagnetic field, dividing the comparison results into a case where both differences are less than a first threshold value, a case where only one of the two differences is less than the first threshold value, and a case where the two differences are not less than the first threshold value, and determining whether a position of the mobile body belongs to the specific region according to the comparison results.
- the estimating of the moving direction of the mobile can comprise: if it is determined that the compass information is valid according as the mobile body belongs to a specific region, obtaining a final compass azimuth angle and estimating a heading angle using a Kalman filter using the final compass azimuth angle as a measurement input; and if it is determined that the compass information is invalid according as the mobile body does not belong to a specific region, comparing an angular velocity of a gyro and an angular velocity of an odometer, and if the difference is less than a second threshold value, estimating a heading direction using the Kalman filter using a moving direction obtained by the odometer as a measurement input, and if the difference is not less than the second threshold value, estimating the moving direction by integrating the angular velocity of the gyro.
- the estimating of the moving direction of the mobile body in the case where each of the magnitude of the magnetic field of the first compass and the magnitude of the magnetic field of the second compass is compared with the magnitude of the geomagnetic field and the two differences are less than the first threshold value can comprise: obtaining a difference between an azimuth angle of the first compass and an azimuth angle of the second compass; if the difference between the azimuth angles is less than a third threshold value, obtaining a compass azimuth angle of the mobile body by varying a weight according to differences between the magnitudes of the magnetic fields of the two compasses and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field; and if the difference between the azimuth angles is not less than the third threshold value, obtaining a difference between an angular velocity of the gyro with respect to the mobile body and each angular velocity with respect to the azimuth angles of the compasses and obtaining the compass azimuth angle of the mobile body according to the magnitudes of the differences.
- the obtaining of the compass azimuth angle of the mobile body by varying a weight can comprise: when ⁇ c1 indicates the amount of how much an azimuth angle of the first compass is changed for a sampling period, ⁇ c2 indicates the amount of how much an azimuth angle of the second compass is changed for the sampling period, ⁇ g indicates an angular velocity of the gyro, ⁇ t indicates a sampling time, ⁇ H 1E indicates a difference between the magnitude of a magnetic field of the first compass and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field, and ⁇ H 2E indicates a difference between the magnitude of a magnetic field of the second compass and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field, if a value obtained by multiplying ⁇ H 1E by ⁇ H 2E is a negative number, determining a value obtained by calculating Formula 3 as a final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c ; if the value obtained by multiplying ⁇ H 1E by ⁇ H 2E
- the obtaining of the compass azimuth angle of the mobile body by obtaining the differences between the angular velocities can comprise: when ⁇ c1 indicates the amount of how much an azimuth angle of the first compass is changed for a sampling period, ⁇ c2 indicates the amount of how much an azimuth angle of the second compass is changed for the sampling period, ⁇ g indicates an angular velocity of the gyro, and ⁇ t indicates a sampling time, if the difference between an azimuth angle of the first compass ⁇ c1 and an azimuth angle of the second compass ⁇ c2 is not less than the third threshold value, checking whether or not to satisfy Formula 6; if Formula 6 is satisfied, determining the azimuth angle of the first compass ⁇ c1 as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c ; if Formula 6 is not satisfied and Formula 7 is satisfied, determining the azimuth angle of the second compass ⁇ c2 as the final com
- the estimating of the moving direction of the mobile body in the case where each of the magnitude of the magnetic field of the first compass and the magnitude of the magnetic field of the second compass is compared with the magnitude of the geomagnetic field and only one of the two differences is less than the first threshold value can comprise: determining an azimuth angle of the compass having the difference less than the first threshold value as the final compass azimuth angle.
- the estimating of the moving direction of the mobile body in the case where each of the magnitude of the magnetic field of the first compass and the magnitude of the magnetic field of the second compass is compared with the magnitude of the geomagnetic field and the two differences are not less than the first threshold value can comprise: calculating an angular velocity with respect to wheel velocities of the mobile body (that is, an angular velocity obtained by the odometers) without using the compass information; obtaining a difference between a gyro angular velocity of the mobile body and the wheel angular velocity; if the difference is less than a second threshold value, estimating an optimum moving direction angle using a Kalman filter using a direction obtained by the odometer as a measurement input; and if the difference is not less than the second threshold value, estimating the moving direction angle by integrating the gyro angular velocity without using the Kalman filter.
- the estimating of the moving direction angle by integrating the gyro angular velocity can further comprise
- the method can further comprise: calculating an optimum moving direction estimation value of the mobile body by filtering a moving direction angle of the mobile body using the Kalman filter feedbacking an error status.
- a motion estimation system for a mobile body in which a gyro, odometers, and compasses are installed, the system comprising: a magnetic field calculator calculating the magnitudes of magnetic fields of the mobile body in which the compasses are installed; a magnetic field comparator obtaining differences between the magnitudes of the magnetic fields and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field and comparing the differences with the first threshold value; a geomagnetic region determiner determining whether a position of the mobile body belongs to a region where the geomagnetism works according to the comparison result; and a moving direction estimator estimating a moving direction of the mobile body by determining whether or not to use azimuth angles of the compasses for direction estimation of the mobile body according to the determination result.
- a computer readable medium having recorded thereon a computer readable program for performing the method described above.
- FIG. 1 shows a mobile body moving on a two-dimensional plane for estimating a position (x, y) and a direction ⁇ ;
- FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a sensor fusion system installed in a mobile body for estimating a moving direction of the mobile body according to an embodiment of the present invention
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a motion estimation system for a mobile body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a motion estimation method for a mobile body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 illustrates an example of obtaining a magnitude of a magnetic field from compass information
- FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating whether H 1 and H 2 obtained by a first compass and a second compass belong to S H ;
- FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a process of calculating a moving direction of a mobile body using a weighted partition method
- FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a process of determining a moving direction of the mobile body in a case where not both differences between the magnitudes of the magnetic fields of the compasses and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field obtained in FIG. 4 are less than a first threshold value;
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a process of estimating a moving direction of the mobile body by checking angular velocities of a gyro and odometers;
- FIG. 10 shows a position of a mobile body on a two-dimensional plane
- FIG. 11 shows an error status measurement model.
- Roll and pitch of a mobile body can be exactly calculated using an accelerometer and a gyro.
- a moving direction of a mobile body is estimated using a new sensor fusion system, which can calculate pose information of the mobile body by accurately and robustly estimating the moving direction of the mobile body. That is, a position and an orientation of the mobile body is optimally estimated by combining absolute sensors and relative sensors such as compasses, a gyro and odometers, effectively dealing with various uncertain environments such as magnetic fields, obstacles, and slippery floors, and obtaining a yaw angle of the mobile body.
- FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of a sensor fusion system installed in a mobile body for estimating a moving direction of the mobile body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the mobile body 200 includes two compasses 210 and 220 , a gyro 230 , and two wheel encoders (odometers) 240 and 250 .
- the sensors have the following characteristics.
- the gyro 230 generates an integration error in an integrating process required for calculating a bias drift error and an angle value in a long-term.
- the gyro 230 can detect a relatively accurate angle value in a short-term.
- the compasses 210 and 220 can provide an absolute azimuth angle in a long-term, accurate information can be obtained using the compasses 210 and 220 .
- the compasses 210 and 220 can generates errors due to magnetic disturbances existing in life environments in a short-term.
- the odometers 240 and 250 installed in driving parts (wheels in a case of a mobile body) of the mobile body show an unbounded error characteristic in a long-term since an error due to slippage and an error due to kinematic conditions, such as a wheel size and whether alignment is performed, are accumulated.
- the odometers 240 and 250 also have such limitation that cannot deal with an unexpected situation such as a bump collision and kidnapping in a short-term.
- the odometers 240 and 250 provide relatively accurate information during most of the time.
- a direction and magnitude of a magnetic field can be obtained from the compasses 210 and 220 .
- An angular velocity can be detected using the gyro 230 .
- An angular velocity of the mobile body can be obtained by detecting rotation velocities of the wheels using the odometers 240 and 250 .
- a rule-based indirect Kalman filter is used for optimally estimating a position and an orientation of the mobile body by combining the absolute sensors and relative sensors such as compasses, a gyro, and odometers, effectively dealing with various uncertain environments such as magnetic fields, obstacles, and slippery floors, and obtaining a yaw angle of the mobile body.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a motion estimation system for a mobile body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the motion estimation system for a mobile body includes a magnetic field calculator 300 , a magnetic field comparator 310 , a geomagnetic region determiner 320 , and a moving direction estimator 330 .
- a gyro, odometers, and compasses are installed in the mobile body.
- the mobile body obtains sensor data from the compasses, the gyro, and the odometers.
- the magnitude of a magnetic field can be obtained from compass information.
- the magnetic field calculator 300 calculates the magnitudes of the magnetic fields of the mobile body in which the compasses are installed.
- the magnetic field comparator 310 obtains differences between the magnitudes of the magnetic fields and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field and compares the differences with a first threshold value ⁇ H .
- the geomagnetic region determiner 320 determines whether a position of the mobile body belongs to a region where the geomagnetism works according to the comparison result.
- the moving direction estimator 330 estimates a moving direction of the mobile body by determining whether or not to use a compass azimuth angle for direction estimation of the mobile body according to the determination result.
- a compass azimuth angle for direction estimation of the mobile body according to the determination result.
- the comparison result of differences between the magnitudes of the magnetic fields obtained from the two compasses and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field, which is obtained by the magnetic field comparator 310 if at least one of the differences is less than the first threshold value ⁇ H , an azimuth angle obtained from the compass data is used for estimating the moving direction of the mobile body. Otherwise, angular velocities of the gyro and the odometers are used for estimating the moving direction of the mobile body.
- FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a motion estimation method for a mobile body according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 5 illustrates an example of obtaining the magnitude of a magnetic field from compass information.
- can be obtained from an x-axis component magnetic field H x and a y-axis component magnetic field H y , which can be obtained from each compass.
- ⁇ H indicates a threshold value and S H indicates a success region, that is, a region where the geomagnetic field works.
- H 1 and H 2 are obtained from a first compass and a second compass as shown in FIG. 6 in operation 600 , and it is checked whether H 1 and H 2 belong to S H in operation 410 .
- is compared with the magnitude of the geomagnetic field
- a difference between an azimuth angle of the first compass ⁇ c1 and an azimuth angle of the second compass ⁇ c2 is obtained in operation 700 .
- a compass azimuth angle of the mobile body is obtained by varying a weight according to the differences between the magnitudes of the magnetic fields of the compasses and the magnitude of the geomagnetic field. That is, if a value obtained by multiplying ⁇ H 1E and ⁇ H 2E is a negative number in operation 710 , a value obtained by Formula 3 is determined as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c in operation 720 .
- a value obtained by Formula 4 is determined as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c in operation 740 .
- a value obtained by Formula 5 is determined as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c in operation 750 .
- the azimuth angle of the first compass ⁇ c1 is determined as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c in operation 770 . If Formula 6 is not satisfied in operation 760 and Formula 7 is satisfied in operation 780 , the azimuth angle of the second compass ⁇ c2 is determined as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c in operation 790 .
- ⁇ c1 indicates the amount of how much an azimuth angle of the first compass is changed for a sampling period
- ⁇ c2 indicates the amount of how much an azimuth angle of the second compass is changed for the sampling period
- ⁇ g indicates an angular velocity of the gyro
- ⁇ t indicates a sampling time.
- the azimuth angle of the second compass ⁇ c2 is determined as the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c as in operation 810 .
- An error status feedback Kalman filter is driven using the final compass azimuth angle ⁇ c obtained by the method described above in operation 430 , and an optimally estimated moving direction is obtained using the error status feedback Kalman filter in operation 440 .
- FIG. 9 is a flowchart of a process of estimating a moving direction of the mobile body by checking angular velocities of the gyro and odometers.
- an odometer angular velocity ⁇ o is obtained from the odometers as shown in Formula 8 in operation 900 .
- V r and v l indicate wheel velocities and l indicates a tread length, i.e., a distance between two wheels.
- the Kalman filter is not used, and the gyro angular velocity is integrated in operation 940 and a suboptimal moving direction is calculated in operation 950 .
- a failure index value is increased in operation 960 , and if the failure index value exceeds a fourth threshold value in operation 970 , a warning signal is issued and system operation is stopped in operation 980 . If the failure index value is equal to or less than the fourth threshold value in operation 970 , sensor data of the compasses, the gyro, and the odometers is read.
- Modeling of odometers and a mobile body corresponding to an example of the mobile body can be performed as follows.
- FIG. 10 shows a position of a mobile body on a two-dimensional plane.
- t s indicates a sampling time
- the mobile body is modeled as shown in Formula 9.
- D l,r indicates a diameter of a wheel
- C e indicates an encoder resolution, which is the number of pulses per one rotation of the wheel
- n indicates a gear ratio
- N l,r indicates the number of pulses within a sampling period
- an odometer angular velocity is represented as shown in Formula 11.
- Modeling of a gyro is performed as follows. First, when ⁇ indicates a moving direction of the mobile body, b indicates a gyro drift rate, ⁇ g indicates a gyro output, n ⁇ indicates Gaussian white noise having distribution ⁇ ⁇ , and n b indicates Gaussian white noise having distribution ⁇ b , a gyro actual model can be represented as shown in Formula 12.
- an output of a gyro estimation model i.e., an integrator, can be represented as shown in Formula 13.
- an external sensor measurement model can be represented as shown in Formula 15.
- an external sensor measurement input is selected with one of the compass final azimuth angle and the odometer angular velocity according to the method described above.
- FIG. 11 shows an error status measurement model.
- the above model can be represented as a discrete model as follows.
- a discrete error status can be defined as shown in Formula 17. ⁇ ( t k ) ⁇ ( t k ) ⁇ tilde over ( ⁇ ) ⁇ ( t k ), ⁇ b ( t k ) ⁇ b ( t k ) ⁇ ⁇ tilde over (b) ⁇ ( t k ) [Formula 17]
- a discrete form of Formula 12 can be represented as shown in Formula 18.
- a discrete form of Formula 13 can be represented as shown in Formula 19.
- Formula 20 can be derived from Formulas 18 and 19.
- a discrete form of Formula 15 can be represented as shown in Formula 21.
- a discrete error status Kalman filter is described in detail as follows.
- Initial conditions can be represented as in Formulas 22 and 23.
- Formula 22 represents a Gaussian random variable (RV), whose average value is basically 0, and
- Formula 23 represents distribution of the initial values ⁇ and b.
- a discrete form of the Gaussian noise can be represented as shown in Formula 24.
- Discrete forms according to temporal updates can be represented as shown in Formulas 25 and 26.
- Discrete forms according to measurement updates can be represented as shown in Formulas 27, 28 and 29.
- Formula 30 can be derived from Formula 19, and Formula 31 can be derived from Formula 28.
- Formula 32 can be obtained from Formula 30 and Formula 31.
- Formula 32 is a representative formula of the error status Kalman filter used in an embodiment of the present invention. According to the method described above, an optimal moving direction estimation value ⁇ circumflex over ( ⁇ ) ⁇ (t k+1 ) can be obtained by selecting one of the compass azimuth angle and the odometer angular velocity as the measurement input and substituting the measurement input for ⁇ m of Formula 32.
- the invention can be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer (including all apparatuses having a information processing function) readable recording medium.
- the computer readable recording medium is any data storage device that can store data which can be thereafter read by a computer system. Examples of the computer readable recording medium include read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, floppy disks, optical data storage devices.
- sensors with a high specification are not necessary. Accordingly, a high performance can be realized with low-price sensors. Also, various unexpected situations that can be dealt with when a mobile body is moved and various kinds of error sources can be estimated. Furthermore, various typical limits included in the Kalman filter, such as that exact information of error characteristics of the sensors is not necessary and that bias, colored noise, and nonsystematic errors can be dealt with, can be overcome. As an ancillary effect, a system fault sensing function can be realized.
- the present invention can be applied to all fields requiring estimation of an absolute position and orientation.
- the applicable fields are as follows: autonomic traveling vehicles, intelligent vehicles, car navigation, medical robots, virtual reality, entertainment, unmanned planes, and personal navigation.
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ΔH iE ≡|H i |−H E| [Formula 1]
If |ΔH iE|<εH , H i ∈S H [Formula 2]
δθ(t)=θ(t)−{tilde over (θ)}(t)
δb(t)=b(t)−{tilde over (b)}(t) [Formula 14]
δθ(t k)≡θ(t k)−{tilde over (θ)}(t k), δb(t k)≡b(t k)−{tilde over (b)}(t k) [Formula 17]
{circumflex over (θ)}(t 0)=θm(t 0) {tilde over (θ)}(t 0)=θm(t 0) δθ(t 0)=0
{circumflex over (b)}(t 0)={tilde over (b)}(t 0)=δb(t 0)=0 [Formula 33]
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